PRINCETON  .  NEW  JERSEY 

FROM  THE  LIBRARY  OF 
ROBERT  ELLIOTT  SPEER 

BR  85  .D78  1897 
Drummond^  Henry,  1851-1897 
A  life  for  a  life,  and  other 
addresses 


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A  LIFE   FOR   A   LIFE 


The  Quiet  Hour  Series* 

iZmOf  cloih,  eacb  25  ceats. 


^i  UU  for  a  Life,  and  other  Addresses.  By  Prof.  Henry 
Drummond.  With  a  Tribute  by  D.  L.  Moody,  and  a  Portrait. 

Peace,  Perfect  Peace.  A  Portion  for  the  Sorrowing.  By 
Rev.  F.  B.  Meyer,  B.A. 

Money:  Thoughts   for    God's    Stewards.      By    Rev. 

Andrew  Murray. 
Jestts  Himself,    By  Rev.  Andrew  Murray. 
Love  Made  Perfect.    By  Rev.  Andrew  Murray.     With 

Portrait. 

The  Ivory  Palaces  of  the  King.  By  Rev.  J.  Wilbur 
Chapman,  D.D.    With  Portrait. 

Chriit  Reflected  in  Creation.    By  D.  C.  McMillan. 

How  the  Inner  Light  Failed.  A  Study  of  the  Atrophy 
of  the  Spiritual  Sense.  To  which  is  added  "How  the 
Inner  Light  Grows."    By  Newell  Dwight  Hillis. 

The  Man  Who  Wanted  to  Help.     By  Rev.  J.  G.  K. 

McClure,  D.D.,  author  of  "  Possibilities." 

Young  Men  in  History.    By  Rev.  F.  W.  Gunsaulus, 

St.  Paul:  An  Autobiography.  Transcribed  by  tht 
Deaconness,  a  servant  of  the  Qiureh. 

Faith  Building.    By  Rev.  Wm.  P.  Merrill,  D.D. 

The  Dearest  Psalm,  and  The  Modd  Prayer.  By  Henry 

Ostrom,  D.D. 

The  Life  Beyond.  By  Mrs.  Alfred  Gatty.  An  Allegory, 
adapted  by  M.  A.  T. 

Mountain  Topj  with  Jesus.  By  Rev.  Theodore  L. 
Cuyler,  D.D. 

The  Hidden  Years  of  Nazareth.  By  Rev.  G.  CampbeW 

Morgan. 

Where  He  Is.    By  Cleland  B.  McAfee. 
Environment.    By  Rev.  J.  G.  K.  McClure. 
Nutsliell  Musings.    By  Amos  R.  Wells. 


Fleming  H*  Revcll  G3mpAny 


New  York:  ig8  Fifth  Ave.  Chicago:  63  Wa^ng»fN«t 

Toronto  :  154  Yonge  St. 


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A  Life  for  a  Life 

And  Other  Addresses 


Prof.  Henry  Drummond 

F.R.S.E.,  F.G.S. 


WITH    A    TRIBUTE    BY 


D.  L.  Moody 


New  York         Chicago  Toronto 

Fleming  H.  Revcll  Company 


Copyright,  1897, 
Fleming  H.  Revell  Company 


THE  CAXTON  PRESS 
NEW  YORK. 


CONTENTS. 

A  Teibtjtb,  by  D.  L.  Moody     .  7 

I.    A  LiFB  FOB  A  Life     ...  13 

II.    Lessons  fbom  The  Angblus      .  43 

III.   THE  Ideal  Hash  •      •      •      •  04 


A  TRIBUTE 


It  sometimes  happens  that  a  man, 
in  giving  to  the  world  the  truths  that 
have  most  influenced  his  life,  uncon- 
sciously writes  the  truest  kind  of  a 
character  sketch.  This  was  so  in  the 
case  of  Henry  Drummond,  and  no 
words  of  mine  can  better  describe 
his  life  or  character  than  those  in 
which  he  has  presented  to  us,  "  The 
Greatest  Thing  in  the  World."  Some 
men  take  an  occasional  journey  into 
the  thirteenth  of  1  Corinthians,  but 
Henry  Drummond  was  a  man  who 
lived  there  constantly,  appropriating 


A  Tribute 

its  blessings  and  exemplifying  its 
teachings.  As  you  read  what  he 
terms  the  analysis  of  love,  you  find 
that  all  its  ingredients  were  inter- 
woven into  his  daily  life,  making  him 
one  of  the  most  lovable  men  I  have 
ever  known.  Was  it  courtesy  you 
looked  for,  he  was  a  perfect  gentle- 
man. Was  it  kindness,  he  was  al- 
ways preferring  another.  Was  it 
humility,  he  was  simple  and  not 
courting  favor.  It  could  be  said  of 
him  truthfully,  as  it  was  said  of  the 
early  apostles,  "  that  men  took  knowl- 
edge of  him,  that  he  had  been  with 
Jesus." 

Nor  was  this  love  and  kindness 
only  shown  to  those  who  were  close 
friends.  His  face  was  an  index  to 
his  inner  life.  It  was  genial  and 
kind,  and  made  him,  like  his  Master, 
a  favorite  with  children.  He  could 
be  the  profound  philosopher  or  the 
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By  D.  L.  Moody 

learned  theologian,  but  I  know  that 
he  preferred  to  be  the  simple  friend 
of  children  and  youth.  Never  have 
I  known  a  man  who,  in  my  opinion, 
lived  nearer  the  Master  or  sought  to 
do  His  will  more  fully. 

I  well  remember  our  first  meeting 
in  Edinburgh  twenty-four  years  ago. 
He  was  still  a  divinity  student  in  the 
university,  but  he  generously  gave 
himself  to  aiding  me  in  every  possi- 
ble way.  There  was  nothing  that 
he  would  not  undertake  to  do  to 
help  spread  the  evangelistic  work 
among  his  friends  in  the  university, 
and,  later  on,  he  began  special  meet- 
ings for  young  men  in  various  towns 
in  Great  Britain.  The  friendship 
then  begun  has  been  strengthened 
ever  since,  not  only  by  his  lovable 
nature,  but  by  the  great  blessing 
God  has  used  him  to  be  in  my  own 
life. 

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A  Tribute 

Never  have  I  heard  Henry  Drura- 
mond  utter  one  unkind  or  harsh  word 
of  criticism  against  any  one.  He 
was  a  man  who  was  filled  with  love 
to  his  fellow  men,  because  he  knew 
by  experience  something  of  the  love 
of  Christ.  He  was  one  of  the  easiest 
men  with  whom  to  work,  for  he 
thought  more  of  the  common  object 
than  of  aught  else. 

The  news  of  his  death  has  brought 
a  sense  of  the  deepest  loss  to  all  his 
friends  in  every  part  of  the  world. 
He  was  a  man  greatly  beloved,  and 
my  own  feelings  are  akin  to  those  of 
David  on  the  death  of  Jonathan. 
But  although  the  life  on  earth  is 
ended,  God  has  called  His  servant 
higher  to  a  sphere  of  greater  useful- 
ness. And  when  at  last  we  meet 
again  before  our  Lord  and  Master 
Jesus  Christ,  whom  we  both  loved 
and  served  together  in  years  gone, 

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we  shall  no  longer  "see  through  a 
glass  darkly ;  but  then  face  to  face ; " 
and  things  which  we  could  not  see 
alike  here  below  we  shall  fully  know 
in  the  light  of  His  countenance,  who 
brought  our  lives  together  and  blessed 
them  with  a  mutual  lore. 

D.  L.  Moody. 


The  following  addresses  were  de- 
livered at  the  Students'  Conference 
in  Northfield,  1893.  They  are  now 
issued  in  permanent  form  for  the 
first  time. 


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The  report  to  the  Italian  govern- 
ment describing  a  great  shipwreck 
said,  "  A  large  ship  was  seen  coming 
close  to  shore  last  night ;  we  endeav- 
ored to  give  every  assistance  through 
the  speaking  trumpet,  nevertheless 
four  hundred  and  one  bodies  were 
washed  ashore  this  morning."  That 
shows  the  futility  of  attempting  to 
save  men  by  speech.  It  isn't  the 
whole  truth,  but  it  is  a  part  of  the 
truth.      In  saving  men   it  is   very 

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often  a  life  for  a  life ;  you  have  to 
give  your  life  to  the  men  whom  you 
ire  trying  to  better.  About  the 
least  Christian  act  a  man  can  do  for 
his  brother-man  is  to  talk  about 
Christianity;  the  case  is  of  a  man 
laying  down  his  life  as  Christ  laid 
down  His  life.  Don't  misunderstand 
me.  I  have  an  idea  that  some  of 
you  don't  understand  me:  it  is  my 
fault,  and  I  will  tell  you  why.  Be- 
cause for  the  last  three  or  four  years 
of  my  life  I  have  had  very  little  to 
do  with  the  ninety  and  nine:  I  have 
been  after  the  one  sheep  that  was 
lost,  and  I  have  got  into  the  way  of 
talking  to  that  one  and  trying  to 
make  things  plain  to  him.  In  most 
cases  he  has  been  a  man  who  wouldn't 
accept  the  Bible  to  start  with,  and  I 
have  had  to  translate  the  Bible  into 
words  which  he  would  accept,  and 
therefore  some  of  you  don't  recognize 

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the  old  truth  in  the  language  of 
the  street.  If  you  want  to  get 
hold  of  an  agnostic,  or  a  man  who 
doesn't  start  off  by  standing  on  the 
common  ground  with  you  of  believ- 
ing the  Bible,  let  me  ask  you  to  try 
to  translate  what  you  have  to  say 
into  the  simplest  words,  into  words 
which  will  not  be  in  every  case  the 
words  in  which  you  ordinarily  clothe 
your  thought.  Now  while  it  is  no 
more  cant  to  talk  about  religion  in 
the  language  of  the  Bible  than  it  is 
cant  to  talk  about  Science  in  the 
words  of  Science — for  religion  has 
technical  terms  just  as  much  as 
science  has — yet  it  will  be  useful  to 
the  man  who  calls  all  that  cant,  and 
it  will  prove  an  exceedingly  valuable 
discipline  for  oneself  to  take  an  old 
text  that  has  been  lingering  in  one's 
mind  from  childhood  and  say,  "  What 
does  this  really  mean  in  nineteenth 
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century  speech?"  You  will  find 
that  an  effort  to  go  to  the  bottom  of 
that  text  will  give  you  a  new  grasp 
of  it,  and,  that  in  so  doing  you  have 
learned  an  exceedingly  valuable  les- 
son, that  it  doesn't  matter  into  what 
phrase  or  words  truth  is  put,  so  long 
as  it  is  true. 

I  had  an  egg  for  breakfast  this 
morning,  and  I  saw  that  it  was  an 
egg ;  there  it  was,  shell  and  all.  God 
made  that  egg.  I  had  an  egg  for 
dinner  to-day,  but  it  was  in  the  pud- 
ding, and  it  didn't  look  in  the  least 
like  an  egg^  but  it  did  me  just  as 
much  good  as  the  egg  which  I  had 
for  breakfast  and  which  I  saw  with 
my  eyes.  You  get  a  ray  of  truth 
through  a  book,  or  a  man,  or  a  pic- 
ture, or  a  tree,  or  the  sky ;  it  doesn't 
matter  the  form  of  it  if  it  does  you 
good,  if  it  inspires  you  and  draws 
you  near  to  God.    Don't  be  suspi- 

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cious  of  it  if  it  is  God's  truth,  even 
if  its  form  changes. 

In  talking  to  a  man, — if  you  are 
to  win  him  in  that  way, — talk  in  the 
man's  own  language  if  you  can.  But 
I  was  going  to  say  more  particularly 
that  one  has  to  do  a  great  deal  more  to 
display  and  live  out  his  Christianity 
than  merely  to  talk  to  people  about 
religion.  Have  you  ever  tried  to  get 
at  the  real  secret  of  what  Christian- 
ity is  ?  It  isn't  picking  out  a  man 
here,  and  a  man  there  and  having  them 
made  fit  to  go  to  Heaven;  Christ 
came  into  this  world,  as  He  himself 
said,  to  found  a  society.  Have  you 
ever  thought  of  that  conception  of 
Christianity  ?  For  hundreds  of  years 
that  conception  of  Christianity  has 
been  utterly  lost  sight  of ;  it  is  only 
lately  that  men  are  getting  back  to 
see  the  great  Christian  doctrine  of 
the  kingdom  of    God.     The  great 

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phrase  that  was  never  off  Christ's 
lips  was  the  "kingdom  of  God."  It 
is  by  far  the  commonest  phrase  in 
his  teaching.  Have  you  ever  given 
a  month  of  your  life  to  finding  out 
what  Christ  meant  by  the  kingdom  of 
God  ?  Every  day  as  we  have  prayed, 
"  Thy  kingdom  come,"  has  our  Chris- 
tian consciousness  taken  in  the  tre- 
mendous sweep  of  that  prayer  and 
seen  how  it  covers  the  length  and 
breadth  of  this  great  world  and  every 
interest  of  human  life  ?  Christ  was 
continually  asking  people  to  join  his 
kingdom,  and  in  order  to  get  them  to 
join  it  and  to  make  no  mistake  about 
its  meaning,  he  was  continually  tell- 
ing them  what  it  was :  the  kingdom 
of  Heaven  is  like  unto  this,  the  king- 
dom of  Heaven  is  like  unto  that ;  if 
there  is  one  thing  more  common  in 
Christ's  teaching  than  another,  it  is 
his  e;xplanation  of  what  the  kingdom 

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of  God  is,  and  what  the  subjects  of 
that  kingdom  are  to  busy  themselves 
in  doing.  Now  the  kingdom  of  God 
is  a  society  of  the  best  men,  working 
for  the  best  ends,  with  the  highest 
motives,  according  to  the  best  prin- 
ciples. The  kingdom  of  God  was  to 
give  them  observation.  Christ  lik- 
ened the  kingdom  of  God  to  leaven, 
and  one  cannot  get  a  better  under- 
standing of  the  meaning  of  this 
phrase  than  by  taking  His  own  met- 
aphor. Christ  saw  that  the  world 
was  sunken  and  that  it  had  to  be 
raised.  Leaven  comes  from  the  same 
word  as  lever  does,  that  which  lifts 
or  raises,  and  Christ  founded  a  So- 
ciety of  men  for  the  purpose  of  rais- 
ing the  world.  The  kingdom  of  God 
is  like  leaven.  When  you  put  leaven 
into  a  vessel  with  the  thing  which  is  to 
be  leavened,  it  does  not  affect  the  out- 
ward form ;  and  when  leaven  comes 
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into  a  society,  or  into  a  church,  or 
into  a  movement,  or  into  a  country, 
it«  first  purpose  is  not  to  affect  the 
outward  form,  but  to  lift  the  external 
form  by  changing  the  inward  spirit 
of  it.  The  kingdom  of  Heaven  is 
like  leaven:  it  is  to  raise  men  by  the 
contact  of  one  life  with  another. 
Did  you  ever  put  a  little  leaven  un- 
der a  microscope?  If  you  did  you 
found  that  it  was  a  plant,  perhaps 
six  one-thousandths  of  an  inch  in  di- 
ameter, with  an  amazing  power  of 
propagation ;  and  that  leaven  simply 
by  being  in  contact  with  the  dough 
has  the  effect  of  lifting  by  means  of 
the  life  that  is  in  it ;  and  the  Chris- 
tian man,  simpl}^  by  virtue  of  the 
life  that  is  in  him, — not  by  attempt- 
ing much  in  the  way  of  forcing  it 
upon  others, — but  by  his  own  spon- 
taneous nature  can  so  work  upon 
men  that  they  cannot  but  feel  that 

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he  has  been  with  Jesus.  When  they 
look  through  him  and  perceiv©  the 
fragrance  of  his  spirit  and  the  Christ- 
likeness  of  his  life,  they  remember 
Christ, — they  are  reminded  of  Christ 
by  him ;  and  a  longing  comes  over 
them  to  live  like  that,  and  breathe 
that  air  and  have  that  calm,  that 
meekness  and  that  beauty  of  charac- 
ter; and  by  that  unconscious  influ- 
ence going  out  as  a  contagious  power, 
men  are  won  to  Christ,  and  by  these 
men  the  world  is  raised.  But  that  is 
not  all. 

The  world  is  not  only  sunken; 
the  world  is  rotten.  Those  of  you 
who  know  life  even  an  inch  below 
the  surface  know  that  even  in 
this  Christian  country,  in  our  great 
cities  the  world  is  rotten.  Have 
you  ever  thought  of  the  sin  of  the 
world?  Think  of  the  sin  in  your 
own  being;  think  that  the  man 
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in  the  next  house  to  you  has  the 
same  amount  of  sin  in  him,  and  that 
all  the  people  in  your  street  are  like 
that.  Multiply  that  by  all  the  streets 
in  your  city,  that  city  by  all  the  cities 
in  your  country,  go  around  the  world 
and  add  to  that  all  the  sin  that  is  in 
all  the  streets  in  all  the  cities  in  the 
world,  and  you  conjure  up  a  ghastly 
spectre  before  which  your  imagina- 
tion quails,  and  that  is  only  a  single 
glimpse  of  the  sin  of  the  world.  But 
it  can  be  taken  away,  it  can  be  taken 
away :  "  Behold  the  Lamb  of  God 
who  taketh  away  the  sin  of  the 
world."  How  does  he  do  it?  On 
the  cross  by  forgiving  the  sin  of  the 
world;  that  is  one  part  of  it,  and 
through  you  and  through  me  and 
through  the  subjects  of  his  kingdom. 
Christ  said  that  the  followers  of  Him 
are  the  salt  of  the  earth  and  it  is 
that  salt  that  helps  to  take  away  the 
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rottenness  of  the  world.  God  takes 
away  the  guilt  of  it,  and  you  help 
him  to  remove  it  by  being  the  salt  in 
iiie  society  in  which  you  live.  Salt 
is  that  which  keeps  things  from  be- 
coming rotten.  You  put  salt  upon 
meat  and  salt  upon  fish  to  prevent 
them  from  becoming  rotten,  and  it  is 
the  Christian  men  and  women  in  the 
city  and  in  the  country  who  prevent 
them  from  becoming  absolutely  rot- 
ten. Christianity  is  the  great  anti- 
septic of  society,  and  if  you  take  the 
Christianity  out  of  New  York,  out  of 
Chicago,  out  of  Berlin,  or  out  of 
Paris,  those  cities  must  gO  to  pieces. 
In  a  few  generations  they  would  go 
to  pieces  even  physically  by  the  mere 
accumulation  of  their  rottenness. 
Now  we  are  to  be  the  salt  of  New 
York  and  of  Chicago  and  of  all  the 
great  cities  of  America,  and  it  is  our 
business  to  make  and  to  keep  these 

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cities  sweet,  not  only  to  sweep  away 
the  rottenness,  but  to  prevent  the 
new  generation  that  is  growing  up 
from  becoming  rotten.  The  work  of 
salt  is  preventative  as  well  as  cura- 
tive. We  do  not  half  enough  em- 
phasize the  preventative  side  of 
Christian  activity;  we  do  not  half 
enough  emphasize  the  making  of 
Christian  environment,  in  which  the 
Christ  life  shall  be  possible  even  in 
the  slums  of  our  great  cities.  That 
man  is  doing  the  work  of  Christ  who 
is  cleansing  these  places  by  building 
new  houses,  by  giving  pure  air  and 
pure  water,  by  giving  good  schools, 
and  by  in  any  way  bringing  sweetness 
and  light  and  purity  to  keep  young 
lives  from  succumbing  to  the  in- 
fluences which  surround  them. 

That  is  not  all.  The  world  which 
you  and  I  have  to  help  to  lift  up  is 
not  only  the  world  of  the  poor,  but 

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we  have  to  lift  up  our  whole  country. 
One  thing  that  strikes  a  stranger 
very  much  in  coming  to  this  country 
is  this:  He  comes  to  a  city  like 
Boston,  and  he  finds  the  merchants 
of  that  city  with  their  heads  buried 
in.  their  ledgers,  while  a  few  Irish- 
men carry  on  the  city  government. 
I  do  not  object  to  an  Irishman,  but  it 
is  matter  in  the  wrong  place  when  a 
company  of  Irishmen  regulate  the 
affairs  of  the  city  of  Boston.  There- 
fore, if  you  are  subjects  of  the  king- 
dom of  God,  you  must  work  to  reform 
the  world  and  reform  your  country 
and  reform  Boston  and  Chicago, 
and  above  all  reform  New  York. 
You  have  been  taught  in  school 
of  your  duties  as  citizens,  but  you 
are  taught  in  this  book  very  plainly 
your  duties  as  Christian  citizens. 
It  is  your  duty  to  make  these  cit- 
ies, and  it  is  possible  for  you  to  do  it. 

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These  cities  are  making  the  people 
that  live  in  them,  and  unless  they 
set  examples  of  righteousness  and 
honor,  the  people  will  not  be  right- 
eous and  honorable.  In  this  coun- 
try there  is  not  only  little  honesty 
and  honor  in  municipal  life,  but  there 
is  little  belief  in  its  possibility.  In 
England  I  have  never  known  of  a 
member  of  a  government  or  of  a  mu- 
nicipality, or  of  a  city  accepting  a 
bribe.  When  I  have  told  that  to 
some  in  America,  they  have  received 
it  with  incredulity,  because  the  very 
conception  of  a  pure  government,  and 
of  honorable  city  and  municipal 
authorities  has  been  almost  lost  by 
the  nation.  It  is  your  business  to 
restore  the  integrity  and  the  righteous- 
ness in  the  high  places  of  this  land, 
and  let  the  people  see  examples 
which  will  be  helpful  to  them  in  their 
Christian  life.     I   cannot  speak  too 

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strongly  about  that,  because  I  know 
that  it  can  be  done.  We  have  had 
rotten  municipal  government,  and 
the  Christian  men  of  the  place  have 
taken  it  up,  and  have  said,  "  we  are 
determined  that  this  shall  not  be,'* 
and  in  the  old  city  they  have  put 
man  after  man  into  the  municipal 
chairs  simply  because  they  were 
Christian  men,  and  because  they 
would  deal  with  the  people  right- 
eously and  carry  out  a  program  of 
Christianity  for  the  city,  and  that  can 
be  done  here. 

Let  me  tell  you  what  happened  to 
fhe  work  of  some  University  men  in 
tue  city  of  London.  They  went  to 
a  district  in  the  East  End,  a  God- 
forsaken, sunken  place,  entirely  oc- 
cupied for  miles  by  working  people. 
They  took  a  little  house  and  became 
settlers  in  that  poor  district.  They 
gave  themselves  no  airs  of  superior 

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ity ;  they  didn't  tell  the  people  they 
had  come  to  do  them  good;  they 
went  in  there  and  made  friends  with 
the  people.  The  leaven  went  in 
among  the  dough,  and  the  salt  went 
in  beside  that  which  was  corrupting. 
The  very  place  where  the  salt  should 
not  be  is  beside  the  salt ;  it  ought  to 
be  scattered  over  the  meat  and  rubbed 
well  into  it.  Well,  these  men  went 
to  live  there,  and  they  were  in  no 
great  hurry.  They  waited  several 
months  and  came  to  know  quite  a 
number  of  the  working  people  ;  they 
came  to  understand  one  another. 
These  men  had  studied  cities,  and 
they  knew  about  city  government, 
and  about  city  life,  and  about  educa- 
tion, and  about  cleansing,  and  about 
purity.  One  day  there  came  a  great 
labor  war,  and  the  workingmen  put 
their  heads  together  and  said,  "  Those 
young  men  up  there  have  good  heads. 


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let's  go  and  talk  it  over  with  them.** 
So  they  did,  and  in  a  few  moments 
those  young  men  were  the  arbiters 
of  the  strike.  By  a  single  word  of 
theirs,  three  or  four  thousand  men 
could  be  kept  at  work,  that  is  three 
or  four  thousand  people  could  be 
kept  out  of  want.  One  of  these 
young  men  after  a  time  was  elected 
to  a  Board,  and  in  a  few  months  was 
the  head  of  that  Board,  and  could 
sway  that  district.  The  other  edged 
his  way  to  the  School-board,  and  soon 
was  head  of  the  School-board.  These 
men  did  not  claim  to  be  superior; 
they  were  elected  kings  of  the  com- 
mon people,  because  the  people  felt 
their  kingship.  By  and  by  there 
came  a  time  when  a  member  of  Par- 
liament was  to  be  chosen,  and  these 
people  put  in  one  of  these  young 
men.  And  so  they  have  taken  pos- 
session of  that  city  in  the  name  of 

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Jesus  Christ,  and  they  are  gradually 
working  and  lifting  and  salting.  It 
is  not  to  be  done  in  a  day, — "  first  the 
blade,  then  the  ear,  then  the  full  corn 
in  the  ear."  It  is  giving  them  ob- 
servation, but  the  kingdom  is  coming 
in  that  way,  and  the  sin  of  that 
place  is  being  taken  away  by  the 
work  of  these  men. 

Christians  are  the  only  agents  God 
has  for  carrying  out  His  purposes. 
Think  of  that !  He  could  himself 
with  a  single  breath  cleanse  the 
whole  of  New  York  or  the  whole  of 
London,  but  he  does  not  do  it.  We 
are  members  of  His  body,  and  it  is 
by  the  members  of  His  body  that  He 
carries  on  His  work,  and  we  all  have 
a  different  piece  of  that  work  to  do. 
Some  of  us  are  limbs  and  must  use 
our  fingers,  and  some  of  us  are  only 
a  little  bit  of  a  little  finger,  and 
others  are  brains.     God  is  in  every- 

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one,  and  all  are  essential  to  the  com- 
ing of  His  kingdom. 

Now  that  conception  of  Christian- 
ity as  a  kingdom  is  beginning  to  go 
throughout  Christendom  at  this  hour. 
Every  age  has  emphasized  its  pecu- 
liar side  of  Christianity,  and  the  side 
that  is  just  now  being  emphasized 
above  all  others  is  that  social  side, 
that  large  conception  of  what  Christ 
came  to  do,  how  He  came  to  save 
men,  as  it  were,  in  the  bulk, — by  the 
city  and  by  the  country — and  the 
movements  that  are  going  on  just 
now  in  society,  in  education,  in  sani- 
tation, in  University  Extension,  in 
philanthropy,  are  all  working  to- 
gether for  good  in  that  direction; 
and  let  us  who  believe  in  the  salva- 
tion of  the  individual  soul  as  the 
supreme  thing  not  startle  away  the 
supreme  thing.  Let  us  not  shut  our 
eyes  to  the  Christianity  pf  Christ,  to 

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His  great  conception  of  the  kingdom 
of  God. 

There  are  two  functions  discharged 
by  every  living  being,  and  by  every 
plant:  one  is  the  struggle  for  its  own 
life, — the  function  of  nutrition;  the 
other  is  the  struggle  for  the  life  of 
others, — the  function  of  reproduc- 
tion. All  the  activities  of  life  may 
be  classed  under  one  or  the  other  of 
these  two  heads,  and  all  the  activi- 
ties of  the  Christian  may  be  classed 
under  one  or  the  other  of  these  two 
heads,  the  function  of  nutrition  and 
the  function  of  reproduction.  You 
go  from  a  Conference  fairly  well  fed ; 
the  individual  life  has  been  attended 
to,  now  what  is  to  become  of  this  un- 
less it  is  to  go  out  in  different  ways 
for  the  helping  of  this  universal 
movement  for  the  bringing  of  the 
world  to  Christ.  I  know  that  many 
of  you  are  puzzled  to  know  in  what 
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direction  you  can  start  to  help  Christ, 
to  help  this  world.  Let  me  simply 
say  this  to  you  in  that  connection : 
Once  I  came  to  crossroads  in  the  old 
life,  and  did  not  know  in  which  di- 
rection God  wanted  me  to  help  to 
hasten  His  kingdom.  I  started  to 
read  the  Book  to  find  out  what  the 
ideal  life  was,  and  I  found  that  the 
only  thing  worth  doing  in  the  world 
was  to  do  the  will  of  God ;  whether 
that  was  done  in  the  pulpit  or  in  the 
slums,  whether  it  was  done  in  the 
college  or  class-room  or  on  the  street 
did  not  matter  at  all.  "  My  meat  and 
my  drink,"  Christ  said,  "  is  to  do  the 
will  of  him  that  sent  me,"  and  if  you 
make  up  your  mind  that  you  are  go- 
ing to  do  the  will  of  God  above 
everything  else,  it  matters  little  in 
what  direction  you  work.  There  are 
more  posts  waiting  for  men  than 
there  are  men  waiting  for  posts 
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Christ  needs  men  in  every  commun- 
ity and  in  every  land ;  it  matters  lit- 
tle whether  we  go  to  foreign  lands  or 
stay  at  home,  as  long  as  we  are  sure 
that  we  are  where  God  puts  us.  I 
am  not  jealous  of  the  great  mission- 
ary movement  which  has  swept  this 
country  and  which  has  also  swept 
ours.  In  my  own  college  at  least 
one  third  of  the  men  are  going  to 
the  foreign  mission  field.  I  am  not 
jealous  of  that  movement,  I  rejoice 
in  it,  but  I  should  like  also  to  plead 
for  my  country  and  for  your  country. 
Men  say,  "How  am  I  to  know 
whether  I  am  to  go  there  or  to  stay 
at  home  ?  "  Let  me  give  you  one  or 
two  points  on  the  subject. 

The  first  thing  of  course  is,  Pray. 
I  need  not  enlarge  upon  that.  The 
only  reason  that  a  man  should  speak 
at  all  is  because  he  says  things  that 
are  not  being  said.  The  second 
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thing  is,  Think.  Think  over  all  tlie 
different  lines  of  work  and  think 
over  all  your  own  qualifications.  If 
you  want  to  go  to  the  missionary 
field,  think  over  the  different  kinds 
of  missionary  fields.  There  are  some 
kinds  of  missionary  fields  which  do 
not  need  you  at  all,  and  there  may 
be  others  for  which  you  are  just  the 
right  man.  It  is  a  mistake  to  imagine 
that  missionary  work  is  all  the  same. 
The  man  who  is  going  to  the  mis- 
sionary field  had  better  not  go  to  his 
field  unequipped  with  a  knowledge 
of  the  people  and  the  country.  A 
third  thing  is,  Take  the  advice  of 
wise  friends,  but  do  not  regard  their 
decision  as  final ;  no  other  man  can 
plan  your  life  for  you.  Let  me  say 
also  in  that  connection,  do  not  im- 
agine that  the  most  disagreeable  of 
two  or  three  alternatives  that  may 
be  before  you  is  necessarily  the  will 

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of  God.  God's  will  does  not  always 
lie  in  the  line  of  the  disagreeable; 
God  likes  to  see  His  children  happy 
just  as  fathers  like  to  see  their  chil- 
dren happy,  and  there  may  be  plums 
waiting  for  you  as  well  as  stones. 
Do  not  sacrifice  yourself  to  a  thing 
that  is  disagreeable  unless  you  are 
quite  sure  that  it  is  the  will  of  God. 
The  fourth  is,  When  the  time  comes 
for  decision,  act,  go  ahead  with  what 
light  you  have,  you  will  find  a  turn 
of  the  road  somewhere.  The  fifth 
thing  is.  Having  once  decided,  don't 
reconsider  your  decision.  The  day 
after  a  man  makes  a  great  life  deci- 
sion, he  does  not  always  allow  himself 
to  think  he  has  done  the  right  thing. 
If  you  make  a  decision  once,  let  that 
be  final.  And  the  last  thing  is, 
That  you  will  probably  not  know  for 
months  or  years  that  you  have  done 
the  right  thing,  but  then  you  will  see 
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that  God  has  led  jou  every  step  of 
the  way.  One  good  general  rule  is, 
go  in  the  direction  of  least  resistance. 
If  you  have  nothing  positive  to  urge 
you  on,  and  find  objections  to  every 
scheme,  go  in  the  direction  where 
there  is  least  resistance. 

I  want  to  return  again  just  for  a 
moment  or  two  to  the  immediate 
purposes  of  those  of  you  who  have  a 
year  or  two  of  college  life  before  you, 
and  I  ask  you  to  study  what  Chris- 
tianity is,  and  to  spread  the  knowl- 
edge of  that  through  your  Univer- 
sity. There  are  many  in  the  Uni- 
versity  who  do  not  know  in  the 
least  what  Christianity  is.  When  I 
was  in  the  University  I  thought 
Christianity  was  something  you 
could  put  upon  the  point  of  a 
needle,  and  I  thought  that  Christ 
was  a  being  so  small  that  you  had  to 
search  hard  for  Him  before  you  found 
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Him,  but  now  I  know  that  the  whole 
earth  is  full  of  His  glory,  and  I 
know  that  there  is  no  scheme  that 
has  ever  been  conceived  by  the  mind 
of  man  so  great  as  the  vision  of 
Christ  when  he  prayed,  "  Thy  king- 
dom come,"  and  saw  the  nations  of 
the  earth  becoming  subjects  of  His 
rule.  Study  the  kingdom  of  God, 
see  what  Christ  said  it  was  like,  and 
how  it  was  coming  to  be  great,  and 
how  the  members  of  that  kingdom 
were  to  act,  and  pass  it  on  to  the 
other  men,  pass  it  on  to  the  lawyers, 
pass  it  on  to  the  doctors,  until  we 
have  the  professions  Christianized, 
and  the  country  will  follow. 

Begin  with  individuals  ;  give  your 
life  for  a  life.  Let  me  illustrate  by 
recalling  to  you  the  case  of  a  man 
whom  I  shall  never  forget  to  my 
dying  day.  One  night  I  got  a  letter 
from  one  of  the  students  of  the  Uni- 


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versity  of  Edinburgh,  page  after  page 
of  agnosticism  and  atheism.  I  went 
over  to  see  him  and  spent  a  whole 
afternoon  with  him  and  did  not  make 
the  slightest  impression.  At  Edin- 
burgh University,  we  have  a  stu- 
dents' Evangelistic  meeting  Sunday 
nights  at  which  there  are  eight  hun- 
dred or  one  thousand  men  present. 
A  few  nights  after  this,  I  saw  that 
man  in  the  meeting,  and  next  to  him 
sat  another  man  whom  I  had  seen 
occasionally  at  the  meetings,  I  did 
not  know  his  name,  but  I  wanted  to 
find  out  more  about  my  skeptic,  so 
when  the  meeting  was  over,  I  went 
up  to  him  and  said,  "  Do  you  happen 
to  know  Boyce  ?  '*  "  Yes,"  he  re- 
plied, "  it  is  he  that  has  brought  me 
to  Edinburgh."  "Are  you  an  old 
friend?"  I  asked.  "I  am  an  Ameri- 
can, a  graduate  of  an  American 
University,"  he  said.     "  After  I  had 

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finished  there  I  wanted  to  take  a 
post-graduate  course,  and  finally  de- 
cided to  come  to  Edinburgh.  In  the 
dissecting  room  I  happened  to  be 
placed  next  to  Boyce,  and  I  took  a 
singular  liking  for  him.  I  found  out 
that  he  was  a  man  of  very  remark- 
able ability,  though  not  a  religious 
man,  and  I  thought  I  might  be  able 
to  do  something  for  him.  A  year 
passed  and  he  was  just  where  I 
found  him."  He  certainly  was  blind 
enough,  because  it  was  only  two  or 
three  weeks  before  that  that  he 
wrote  me  that  letter.  "  I  think  you 
said,"  I  resumed,  "  that  you  only 
came  here  to  take  a  year  of  the  post- 
graduate course."  **  Well,"  he  said, 
"I  packed  my  trunks  to  go  home, 
and  I  thought  of  this  friend,  and  I 
wondered  whether  a  year  of  my  life 
would  be  better  spent  to  go  and 
start  in  my  profession  in  America,  or 

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i<o  stay  in  Edinburgh  and  try  to  win 
that  one  man  for  Christ,  and  I 
stayed."  "  Well,"  I  said,  *♦  my  dear 
fellow,  it  will  pay  you ;  you  will  get 
that  man."  Two  or  three  months 
passed,  and  it  came  to  the  last  night 
of  our  meetings.  We  have  men  in 
Edinburgh  from  every  part  of  the 
world.  Every  year,  five  or  six  hun- 
dred of  them  go  out  never  to  meet 
again,  and  in  our  religious  work,  we 
get  very  close  to  one  another,  and  on 
the  last  night  of  the  year  we  sit  down 
together  in  our  common  hall  to  the 
Lord's  Supper.  This  is  entirely  a 
students'  meeting.  On  that  night  we 
get  in  the  members  of  the  theological 
faculty,  so  that  things  may  be  done 
decently  and  in  order.  Hundreds  of 
men  are  there,  the  cream  of  the  youth 
of  the  world,  sitting  down  at  the 
Lord's  Table.  Many  of  them  are  not 
members  of  the  church,  but  are  there 

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for  the  first  time  pledging  themselves 
to  become  members  of  the  kingdom 
of  God.  I  saw  Bojce  sitting  down 
and  handing  the  communion  cup  to 
his  American  friend.  He  had  got 
his  man.  A  week  after,  he  was  back 
in  his  own  country.  I  do  not  know 
his  name ;  he  made  no  impression  in 
our  country,  nobody  knew  him.  He 
was  a  subject  of  Christ's  kingdom, 
doing  His  work  in  silence  and  in 
humility.  A  few  weeks  passed  and 
Boyce  came  to  see  me.  I  said, 
'  What  do  you  come  here  for  ? '*  He 
3aid,  "  I  want  to  tell  you  I  am  going 
to  be  a  Medical  Missionary."  It  was 
worth  a  year,  was  it  not  ? 

Before  you  leave,  gentlemen,  be- 
fore you  leave  Northfield,  make  up 
your  mind  that  with  God's  help  you 
will  try  and  win  your  man.  Let  us 
try  and  lead  souls  to  Christ,  if  He 
can  use  us  in  that  way. 

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Students  are  recommended  to  in- 
vest in  certain  books ;  I  am  going  to 
take  the  liberty  to  suggest  to  you  the 
buying  of  a  certain  picture  which 
you  can  get  for  a  very  few  cents  ;  it 
is  Millet  Angelus. 

God  speaks  to  men's  souls  through 
music,  and  He  also  speaks  through 
art.  This  famous  picture  is  an  il- 
luminated text,  and  upon  it  I  want 
to  hang  what  I  have  to  say  to-night. 

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There  are  three  things  in  this  pic* 
ture — a  potato  field,  a  country  la^" 
and  a  country  girl  standing  in  t^e 
middle  of  it,  and  upon  the  far  horizon 
the  spire  of  a  village  church.  That 
is  all — no  great  scenery,  and  no  pic- 
turesque people. 

In  Roman  Catholic  countries  at 
the  evening  hour  the  church  bell 
rings  out  to  remind  the  people  to 
pray.  Some  go  into  the  church  to 
pray,  while  those  that  are  in  the 
fields,  when  the  Angelus  rings,  bow 
their  heads  for  a  few  moments  in 
silent  prayer. 

That  picture  is  a  perfect  portrai- 
ture of  the  Christian  life ;  and  what 
is  interesting  about  it  apart  from  the 
fact  that  it  singles  out  the  three 
great  pedestals  upon  which  a  symmet- 
rical life  is  lived,  is  the  completeness 
of  the  truth  that  it  contains.  I  re- 
call how  often  Mr.  Moody  has  told 

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us  that  it  is  not  enough  to  have  the 
roots  of  religion  in  us,  but  that  we 
must  be  whole  and  entire,  lacking 
nothing. 

The  Angelus,  as  we  look  upon  it, 
will  reveal  to  us  the  elements  which 
constitute  the  complete  life. 

The  first  of  these  is  work.  Three - 
fourths  of  our  life  is  probably  spent 
in  work.  Is  that  religious  or  is  it 
not  ?  What  is  the  meaning  of  it  ?  Of 
course  the  meaning  of  it  is  that  our 
work  should  be  just  as  religious  aa 
our  worship,  and  that  unless  we  can 
make  our  work  religious,  three- 
fourths  of  life  remains  unsanctified. 

The  proof  that  work  is  religious  is 
that  the  most  of  Christ's  life  was 
spent  in  work.  During  those  first 
thirty  years  of  His  life,  the  Scrip- 
tures were  not  in  His  hands  so  much 
as  the  hammer  and  the  plane;  He 
was  making  chairs  and  tables  and 

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ploughs  and  yokes ;  which  is  to  say 
that  the  highest  conceivable  life 
was  mainly  spent  in  doing  common 
work.  Christ's  public  ministry  oc- 
cupied only  about  two  and  a  half 
years ;  the  great  bulk  of  His  time  He 
was  simply  at  work,  and  ever  since 
then  work  has  had  a  new  meaning. 

When  Christ  came  into  the  world, 
He  came  to  men  at  their  work.  He 
appeared  to  the  shepherds,  the  work- 
ing classes  of  those  days;  He  ap- 
peared also  to  the  wise  men,  the 
students  of  those  days.  Three  dep- 
utations went  out  to  meet  Him. 
E'irst  came  the  shepherds,  second  the 
wise  men,  and  third  the  two  old 
people,  Simeon  and  Anna — that  is  to 
say,  Christ  comes  to  men  at  their 
work.  He  comes  to  men  at  their 
books,  and  He  comes  to  men  at  their 
worship.  But  you  will  notice  that  it 
was  the  old  people  who  found  Christ 
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at  their  worship,  and  as  we  grow 
older  we  will  spend  more  time  in 
worship,  and  wili  repair  to  the 
prayer  meeting  and  the  house  of  God 
to  meet  Christ  and  to  worship  Him 
as  Simeon  and  Anna  did.  But  until 
the  age  comes  when  much  of  our 
time  will  be  given  to  direct  vision, 
we  must  try  to  find  Christ  at  our 
books  and  in  our  common  work. 

Now  why  should  God  have  ar- 
ranged it  that  so  many  hours  of  every 
day  should  be  occupied  with  work? 
It  is  because  work  makes  men.  A 
University  is  not  merely  a  place  for 
making  scholars,  it  is  a  place  for 
making  Christians.  A  farm  is  not  a 
place  for  growing  corn,  it  is  a  place 
for  growing  character,  and  a  man  has 
no  character  except  what  is  built  up 
through  the  medium  of  the  things 
that  he  does  from  day  to  day.  God's 
Spirit  does  the  building  through  the 

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acts  whicli  a  man  performs  during 
his  life  work.  If  a  student  cons  out 
every  word  in  his  latin  instead  of 
consulting  a  translation,  the  result  in 
that  honesty  is  translated  into  his 
character;  if  he  works  out  his  math- 
ematical problems  thoroughly,  he  not 
only  becomes  a  mathematician,  but  a 
thorough  man ;  if  he  attends  to  the 
instructions  that  are  given  him  in 
the  class-room  intelligently  and  con- 
scientiously, he  becomes  a  conscien- 
tious man.  It  is  just  by  such  means 
that  thoroughness  and  conscientious- 
ness and  honorableness  are  imbedded 
in  our  being.  We  cannot  dream  per- 
fect character ;  we  do  not  get  it  in 
our  sleep ;  it  comes  to  us  as  muscle 
comes,  through  doing  things.  Char- 
acter  is  the  muscle  of  the  soul,  and 
it  is  developed  by  the  practice  of  the 
muscles,  and  by  exercising  it  upon 
actual  things ;  hence  our  work  is  the 
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making  of  us,  and  it  is  by  and 
through  our  work  that  the  great 
Christian  graces  are  communicated 
to  our  soul.  That  is  the  means 
which  God  employs  for  the  growing 
of  the  Christian  graces,  and  apart 
from  that  we  cannot  have  a  Christian 
character.  Hence  the  religion  of  a 
student  consists  first  of  all  in  his  being 
true  to  his  work,  and  in  letting  his 
Christianity  be  shown  to  his  fellow 
students  and  to  his  professors  by  the 
integrity  and  the  thoroughness  of  his 
academic  work.  If  he  is  not  faithful 
in  that  which  is  least,  it  will  be  im- 
possible for  him  to  be  faithful  in  that 
which  is  great.  I  have  known  men 
who  struggled  unsuccessfully  for 
years  to  pass  their  examinations,  who 
when  they  became  Christians,  found 
a  new  motive  for  work,  and  thus  were 
able  to  succeed  where  previously 
they  had  failed. 

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There  are  men  here  who  have 
much  intellectual  energy ;  if  they 
can  but  see  that  a  man's  Christianity 
comes  out  as  much  in  his  work  as  in 
his  worship,  they  will  find  a  new  mo- 
tive and  stimulus  to  do  their  work 
thoroughly.  Our  work  is  not  only 
to  be  done  thoroughly,  it  is  to  be 
done  honestly.  By  this  I  mean  not 
so  much  that  a  man  must  be  honor- 
able in  his  academic  relations,  as  that 
he  must  be  fair  to  his  own  mind,  and 
to  the  principles  of  the  truth.  We 
are  not  entitled  to  dodge  difficulties, 
when  they  arise  it  is  our  duty  to  go 
to  the  bottom  of  them.  Perhaps  the 
truths  which  are  dear  to  us  are  deeper 
even  than  we  think,  and  we  can  get 
more  out  of  them  if  we  dig  down  for 
the  nuggets.  Others  may  perhaps 
be  found  to  have  false  bases ;  if  so, 
we  ought  to  know  it. 

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X,essons  from  The  Angelus 

thing  in  the  world,  and  the  student 
ought  to  sound  it  in  every  direction 
to  see  if  there  is  deep  water  and  a 
safe  place  in  which  to  launch  his  life ; 
if  there  are  shoals  he  ought  to  know 
it.  Therefore,  when  we  come  to  dif- 
ficulties, let  us  not  be  guilty  of  jump- 
ing lightly  over  them,  but  let  us  be 
honest  as  seekers  after  truth, — which 
is  the  definition  of  a  student.  It 
may  not  be  necessary  for  people  in 
general  to  sift  the  doctrines  of 
Christianity  for  themselves,  but  it  is 
required  of  a  student,  whose  busi- 
ness it  is  to  think,  to  exercise  the  in- 
tellect which  God  has  given  him  in 
finding  out  the  truth.  Faith  is  never 
opposed  to  reason,  though  it  is  often 
supposed  that  the  Bible  teaches  that 
it  is,  but  you  will  find  that  it  is  not. 
Faith  is  opposed  to  sight  but  not  to 
reason.  It  is  only  b}^  reason  that  we 
can   sift  and   examine  and  criticise 

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and  be  sure  of  the  forms  of  truth 
which  are  given  us  as  Christians. 
Hence  the  great  field  of  work  that  is 
open  to  a  student  is  in  seeking  for 
truth,  and  let  him  be  sure  that  in 
seeking  for  truth  he  is  drawing  very 
near  to  Christ  who  said :  "  I  am  the 
way,  and  the  truth,  and  the  life." 
We  talk  a  great  deal  about  Christ  as 
the  Way  and  Christ  as  the  Life,  but 
there  is  a  side  of  Christ  especially 
for  the  student,  "  I  am  the  Truth ; " 
and  every  student  ought  to  be  a 
truth  lover  and  a  truth  seeker  for 
Christ's  sake. 

Another  element  in  life  which  of 
J'  Lirse  is  first  in  importance,  is  Qod, 
The  Angelus  is  perhaps  the  most  re- 
ligious picture  painted  during  this 
century.  You  cannot  look  at  it  and 
see  that  young  man  standing  in  the 
field  with  his  hat  off,  and  the  girl  op- 
posite him   with  her  hands  clasped 

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and  lier  head  bowed  upon  her  breast 
without  feeling  a  sense  of  God.  Do 
we  carry  about  with  us  a  sense  of 
God  ?  Do  we  carry  the  thought  of 
Him  with  us  wherever  we  go  ?  If 
not,  we  have  missed  the  greatest  part 
of  life.  Do  we  have  that  feeling  and  a 
conviction  of  God^s  abiding  presence 
wherever  we  are  ?  There  is  nothing 
more  needed  in  this  generation  than 
a  larger  and  more  scriptural  idea  of 
God.  A  great  American  writer  has 
told  us  that  when  he  was  a  boy  the 
conception  of  God  which  he  got 
from  books  and  sermons  was  that  of 
a  wise  and  very  strict  lawyer.  I  re- 
member well  the  awful  conception 
of  God  which  I  got  when  I  was  a 
boy.  I  was  given  an  illustrated  addi- 
tion of  Watts'  hymns,  and  amongst 
others  there  was  one  hymn  which 
represented  God  as  a  great  piercing 
eye  in  the   midst  of  a  great  black 

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thunder  cloud.      The  idea  of  God 

which  that  picture  gave  to  my  young 

imagination  was  of  a  great  detective 

playing  the  spy  upon  my  actions ;  as 

the  hymn  says : 

"  Writing  now  the  story  of  what  little 
children  do." 

Such  lines  as  this  gave  me  a  bad 
idea  which  it  has  taken  me  years  to 
obliterate.  We  think  of  God  as  "up 
there  " ;  there  is  no  such  place  as  "up 
there."  Do  not  think  that  God  is 
"  up  there."  You  say,  God  made  the 
world  six  thousand  years  ago,  and 
then  retired;  that  is  the  last  that 
was  seen  of  Him ;  He  made  the 
world  and  then  went  to  look  on,  and 
keep  things  going.  Geology  has 
been  away  back  there,  and  Go(i  has 
gone  farther  and  farther  back ;  this 
six  thousand  years  has  extended  out 
into  ages  and  ages,  and  long,  long 
periods.  Where  is  God  if  He  i?  *^iot 
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"up  there  "  or  "  back  there  ?  "—"up 
there  "  in  space,  or  "  back  there"  in 
time — where  is  He  ?  "  The  word  is 
nigh  thee,  even  in  thy  mouth." 
"The  Kingdom  of  God  is  within 
you,"  and  God  Himself  is  among 
men.  When  are  we  to  exchange  the 
terrible  far  away,  absentee  God  of 
our  childhood  for  the  everywhere 
present  God  of  the  Bible  ?  The  God 
of  theology  has  been  largely  taken 
from  the  old  Roman  Christian  writers, 
who,  great  as  they  were,  had  nothing 
better  to  form  their  conception  of 
God  upon  than  the  greatest  man. 
The  greatest  man  to  them  was  the 
Roman  emperor,  and  therefore  God 
to  them  became  a  kind  of  divine 
emperor.  The  Greeks  had  a  far 
grander  conception  which  is  again 
finding  expression  in  modern  theol- 
ogy. The  Greek  God  is  the  God  of 
this  Book;  the  Spirit  which  moved 

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upon  the  waters ;  the  God  in  whom 
we  live,  and  move,  and  have  our  be- 
ing; the  God  of  whom  Jesus  spoke 
to  the  women  at  the  well,  the  God 
who  is  a  spirit.  Let  us  gather  the 
conception  of  an  imminent  God; 
that  is  the  theological  word  for  it, 
and  it  is  a  splendid  word,  Immanuel 
— God  with  us — an  inside  God,  an 
imminent  God. 

Long,  long  ago,  God  made  matter, 
then  He  made  the  flowers  and  trees 
and  animals,  then  He  made  man.  Did 
He  stop  ?  Is  God  dead  ?  If  He  lives 
and  acts  what  is  He  doing?  He  is 
making  men  better.  He  is  carrying 
on  the  development  of  men.  It  is 
God  which  "  worketh  in  you.'*  The 
buds  of  our  nature  are  not  all  out 
yet;  the  sap  to  make  them  bloom 
comes  from  the  God  who  made  us, 
from  the  indwelling  Christ.  Our 
bodies  are  the  temples  of  the  Holy 

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Ghost,  and  we  must  bear  this  in  mind 
because  the  sense  of  God  is  kept  up 
not  by  logic,  but  by  experience, — we 
must  try  to  keep  alive  this  sense  of 
God. 

You  have  heard  of  Helen  Keller, 
the  Boston  girl,  who  was  born  deaf, 
and  dumb,  and  blind;  until  she  was 
seven  years  of  age  her  life  was  an 
absolute  blank;  nothing  could  go 
into  that  mind  because  the  ears  and 
eyes  were  closed  to  the  outer  world. 
Then  by  that  great  process  which  has 
been  discovered,  by  which  the  blind 
see,  the  deaf  hear,  and  the  mute 
speak,  the  girl's  soul  became  opened? 
and  they  began  to  put  in  little  bits 
of  knowledge,  and  bit  by  bit  to  edu- 
cate her.  But  they  reserved  the  re- 
ligious instruction  for  Phillips  Brooks. 
When  she  was  twelve  years  old  they 
took  her  to  him  and  he  talked  to  her 
through  the  medium  of  the  young 

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lady  who  had  been  the  means  of 
opening  her  senses,  and  who  could 
communicate  with  her  by  the  exceed- 
ingly delicate  process  of  touch.  He 
began  to  tell  her  about  God,  and 
what  He  had  done,  and  how  He  loves 
men  and  what  He  is  to  us.  The  child 
listened  very  intelligently,  and  finally 
said,  "  Mr.  Brooks,  I  knew  all  of  that 
before,  but  I  did  not  know  His  name." 
Have  you  not  often  felt  something 
within  you  that  was  not  you,  some 
mysterious  pressure,  some  impulse, 
some  guidance,  something  lifting  you 
and  impelling  you  to  do  that  which 
you  would  not  yourself  ever  have 
conceived  of?  Perhaps  you  did  not 
know  His  name — "  It  is  God  that 
worketh  in  you."  If  we  can  really 
found  our  life  upon  that  great  simple 
fact,  the  first  principle  of  religion, 
which  we  are  so  apt  to  forget,  that 
God  is  with  us  and  in  us,  we  will 

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have  no  difficulty  or  fear  about  our 
future  life. 

Two  Americans  who  were  crossing 
the  Atlantic,  met  in  the  cabin  on 
Sunday  night  to  sing  hymns.  As 
they  sang  the  last  hymn,  "  Jesus 
lover  of  my  soul,"  one  of  them  heard 
an  exceedingly  rich  and  beautiful 
voice  behind  him.  He  looked  around 
and  although  he  did  not  know  the 
face,  he  thought  that  he  knew  the 
voice,  so  when  the  music  ceased,  he 
turned  around  and  asked  the  man  if 
he  had  not  been  in  the  civil  war. 
The  man  replied  that  he  had  been  a 
confederate  soldier.  "  Were  you  at 
such  a  place  on  such  a  night  ?  "  asked 
the  first.  "  Yes,"  he  replied,  **  and  a 
curious  thing  happened  that  night 
which  this  hymn  has  recalled  to  my 
mind.  I  was  posted  on  sentry  duty 
in  ^he  edge  of  a  wood.  It  was  a  dark 
night  and  very  cold  and  I  was  a  little 

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frightened  because  the  enemy  were 
supposed  to  be  very  near.  About 
midnight  when  everything  was  very 
still  and  I  was  feeling  homesick  and 
miserable  and  weary,  I  thought  that 
1  would  comfort  myself  by  praying 
and  singing  a  hymn.  I  remember 
singing  this  hymn, 

** '  All  my  trust  on  Thee  is  stayed, 
All  my  help  from  Thee  I  bring, 
Cover  my  defenceless  head 
With  the  shadow  of  Thy  wing.' 

After  singing  that  a  strange  peace 
came  down  upon  me,  and  through 
the  long  night  I  remember  having 
felt  no  more  fear." 

"  Now,"  said  the  other,  "  Listen  to 
my  story.  I  was  a  Union  soldier  and 
was  in  the  wood  that  night  with  a 
party  of  scouts.  I  saw  you  stand- 
ing, although  I  did  not  see  your  face. 
My  men  had  their  rifles  focused  upoi> 

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you,  waiting  the  wor^d  to  fire,  but 
when  you  sang  out, 

"  '  Cover  my  defenceless  head 

With  the  shadow  of  Thy  wing,' 

I  said,  *  Boys,  lower  your  rifles,  we 
will  go  home.' " 

God  was  working  in  each  of  them. 
By  just  such  means,  by  His  every 
where  acting  mysterious  Spirit,  God 
keeps  His  people  and  guides  them, 
and  hence  that  second  great  element 
in  life,  God  ;  without  Him  life  is  but 
a  living  death. 

The  third  element  in  life  about 
which  I  wish  to  speak  is  Love,  The 
first  is  Work^  the  second  is  God^  and 
the  third  is  Love.  In  this  picture  you 
notice  the  delicate  sense  of  compan- 
ionship brought  out  by  the  young 
man  and  the  young  woman.  It  mat- 
ters not  whether  they  are  brother  and 
sister,  or  lover  and  loved,  there  you 

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have  the  idea  of  friendship,  the  final 
ingredient  in  our  life,  after  the  two  I 
have  named.  If  the  man  or  the  woman 
had  been  standing  in  that  field  alone 
it  would  have  been  incomplete.  Love 
is  the  divine  element  in  life,  be- 
cause "  God  is  love,"  and  because 
"  he  that  loveth  is  born  of  God "  ; 
therefore,  as  one  has  said,  let  us 
"keep  our  friendships  in  repair." 
They  are  worth  while  spending  time 
over,  because  they  constitute  so  large 
a  part  of  our  life.  Let  us  cultivate 
this  spirit  of  friendship  that  it  may 
grow  into  a  great  love,  not  only  for 
our  Jriends  but  for  all  humanity. 
Those  of  you  who  are  going  to  the 
mission  field  must  remember  that 
your  mission  will  be  a  failure  unless 
you  cultivate  this  element. 

So  these  three  things  complete  life. 
Some  of  us  may  not  have  these  in- 
gredients in  their  right  proportion, 

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but  if  our  life  is  not  comfortable,  i£ 
we  are  incomplete,  let  us  ascertain  if 
we  are  not  lacking  in  one  or  the 
other  of  these  three  things,  and  then. 
let  us  pray  for  it  and  work  for  it. 
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^  You  are  to  have  many  speakers  to- 
night, and  my  words  are  necessarily 
exceedingly  few,  and  I  desire  to  de- 
vote   them   however   informal   they 
.•Tiay  be,  to  state  principles;  because 
when  on^r.ets  hold  of  principles,  one 
can    arra.x^-  many  facts  and  many 
ideas  and  many  aspirations  around 
them.     And  I  want  to  be  quite  in^ 
formal-^this  is  an  informal  night,  it 
is  the  last  night  we  shall  be  together, 
and  we  talk  to  one  another  with  more 
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intimacy  perhaps  than  we  would  be 
apt  to  do  on  r.  platform  night. 

I  started  out  some  years  ago,  when 
I  was  a  student,  to  find  out  the  mean- 
ing of  life,  to  discover  what  was  the 
ideal-life,  and  I  went  for  my  informa- 
tion to  this  Book,  lere  I  found  a 
sketch  of  an  ideal  n  .n,  which  I  want 
to  give  you  in  a  very  few  words,  in 
the  language  of  this  book. 

The  definition  of  the  ideal  man  I 
found  to  be  this ;  "  A  man  after  my 
own  heart  who  shall  fulfil  all  my 
wm." 

The  first  thing  a  man  needs  is  a 
reason  for  being  born  at  all.  What 
are  we  here  for  ?  What  is  ""he  object 
of  life  ?  I  found  this  ans^  ar  to  that 
question :  "  I  come  to  do  thy  will, 
O  God."  And  that  is  the  principle 
which  a  Christian  life  ought  to  b© 
built  upon.  Our  Christian  experi-. 
ence  is  very  apt  to  be  made  of  scraps, 

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bits  of  sermons,  stray  texts,  and  iso- 
lated sentences  instead  of  being  of  a 
piece  and  of  increasing  forces  directed 
constantly  from  the  beginning  of  life 
until  the  curtain  drops.  If  we  real- 
ized that  we  come  into  the  world  to 
do  the  will  of  God  and  set  the  helm 
steady  from  the  beginning,  our  lives 
would  work  out  to  a  great  purpose. 
The  real  object  of  life  is  simply  to  do 
the  will  of  God.  When  Mr.  Moody 
was  in  London  some  years  ago,  they 
put  up  for  his  meetings,  a  building 
which  held  ten  thousand  people. 
After  the  meetings  were  over,  this 
building  which  was  put  up  at  a  great 
cost  was  to  be  taken  down.  A  num- 
ber of  the  committee  said,  "  Well,  it 
is  rather  a  shame  to  take  down  this 
great  house  after  only  a  few  months' 
use;  could  we  not  get  some  of  the 
great  preachers  to  preach  to  the  peo- 
ple ?  "     They  wrote  to  Mr.  Spurgeon, 

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and  asked  him  to  come  there  for  a 
week.  They  said,  "  Here  is  a  chance 
to  reach  ten  thousand  people  every 
night,"  and  they  magnified  the  part 
Mr.  Spurgeon  would  have  to  these 
vast  crowds.  Mr.  Spurgeon  wrote  a 
letter  back  to  Mr.  Moody  which  I 
happened  to  see,  and  it  began  with 
these  words,  "  I  have  no  ambition  to 
preach  to  ten  thousand  people,  but 
to  do  the  will  of  God ;  "  and  he  de- 
clined. The  responsibility  lay  with 
him  to  satisfy  his  own  conscience  as 
to  why  he  declined,  but  what  struck 
me  about  that  letter  was  that  it  ex- 
posed the  vertebral  column  of  that 
great  Christian  life.  "I  have  no 
ambition  to  do  this  or  to  do  that,  but 
to  do  the  will  of  God." 

The  first  thing  a  baby  needs  who 

comes  into  the  world  and  begins  to 

live  is  food.     I  searched  my  Bible 

for   food  for  the  ideal  man,  and  I 

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found  it:     "My  meat  is  to  do  the 
will  of  Him  who  sent  me." 

After  a  child  has  food,  th«  next 
thing  needed  is  companionship.  The 
hunger  of  the  affections  begins  to 
speak,  and  the  child  begins  to  feel 
around  after  objects  of  affection. 
Hence,  the  next  thing  the  ideal  man 
needs  is  friends;  and  I  started  out 
to  see  what  company  he  would  have, 
and  I  found  this :  "  Whosoever  doeth 
the  will  of  my  Father  which  is  in 
heaven,  the  same  is  my  mother,  and 
sister  and  brother."  All  the  people 
in  the  world,  black  and  white,  rich 
and  poor,  educated  and  illiterate, 
who  are  doing  the  will  of  God,  are 
my  mother,  my  brother,  and  my  sis- 
ter. They  may  not  believe  as  I  be- 
lieve; they  may  not  hold  th©  same 
form  of  church  government  as  I 
hold;  that  doesn't  disinherit  them, 
or  dismember  them  from  the  family. 


The  Ideal  Man 

♦*  Whosoever  doeth  the  will  of  God, 
ohe  same  is  my  mother  and  sister 
and  brother." 

The  next  thing  an  ideal  man  wants, 
after  he  has  his  friends,  is  lan- 
guage. Although  I  cannot  find  any 
kind  of  language  he  is  to  talk  to  his 
earthly  friends,  yet  I  can  learn  a 
great  deal  what  it  ought  to  be  from 
the  ideal  man's  prayers,  the  language 
which  he  uses  in  talking  to  his 
Father :  "  Thy  will  be  done."  And 
let  us  notice  that  this  prayer  does 
not  mean  resignation ;  it  is  not  pas- 
sive, but  active. 

To  pray  this  prayer  is  not  in  effect 
to  say,  "  God  evidently  is  going  to 
have  his  way  and  we  may  just  as 
well  succumb ;  it  is  of  no  use  to  kick 
against  the  pricks  ;  let  us  just  resign 
at  once ;  Thy  will  be  done."  It  is 
an  active  prayer,  and  means,  "Let 
that  will  work  through  the  earth;  let 

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it  be  done  in  the  world ;  let  it  be  as 
energetic  in  the  world,  as  it  is 
triumphant  in  heaven,  until  it  carries 
and  sweeps  everything  in  the  earth 
along  with  it  I "    "  Thy  will  be  done ! " 

All  men  may  be  saved ;  hence  the 
prayer  Thy  will  be  done  is  followed  by 
the  expression,  "  Thy  kingdom  come." 

It  is  the  will  of  God  that  Christ's 
program  for  the  world  should  be 
carried  out,  and  the  ideal  man  will 
turn  away  from  all  the  other  objects 
and  ambitions  one  by  one  until  he 
has  centred  himself  and  gives  the  last 
drop  of  his  blood  to  the  coming  of 
Christ's  kingdom.  The  kingdom  of 
God  is  coming  in  Northfield  about  as 
plain  as  in  any  other  part  of  the 
world,  perhaps  a  great  deal  plainer. 
Those  who  know  Northfield  to-day, 
and  those  who  knew  it  twenty  years 
ago,  know  that  even  in  that  short 
time    the    kingdom    of    Christ    has 

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been  coming  here.  Things  are  pos- 
sible here  now  that  were  impossible 
then ;  lives  are  lived  here  now  that 
were  not  then;  the  whole  atmos- 
phere of  the  place  has  felt  the  in- 
fluence of  Christ.  If  you  could  pass 
that  on  to  every  town  in  America 
and  to  every  city,  we  should  see, 
even  in  our  own  lifetime,  the  king- 
dom of  God  coming;  and  it  should 
be  our  business,  if  we  try  to  lead  the 
ideal  life,  to  have  God's  will  done  in 
our  town  and  in  our  state  and  city  as 
it  is  done  in  heaven.  Let  us  localize 
that  prayer;  let  us  localize  it  and 
particularize  it  and  get  it  into  the  bit 
of  the  world  that  we  are  responsible 
for  and  not  lose  it  in  space — "Thy 
will  be  done." 

I  will  dwell  for  a  few  moments  on 
the  other  parts  of  the  ideal  life. 
Education  is  the  next  thing  an  ideal 
man  wants :    "  Teach  me  to  do  thy 

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will,  O  God.'*  One  might  go  on  to 
speak  of  the  enjoyments  of  the  ideal 
life:  "I  delight  to  do  thy  will,  O 
God ;  thy  statutes  have  been  my  song 
in  the  house  of  my  pilgrimage."  The 
pleasure  of  life  consists  in  living 
along  the  lines  of  God's  will. 

The  close  of  life,  the  final  step  of 
life,  the  end  of  it  all,  is  an  eternal 
life ;  all  the  other  lives  may  be  very 
fine,  beautiful  and  interesting,  and  in 
their  way  useful,  but  this  is  an  eter- 
nal life, — "  He  that  doeth  the  will  of 
God  abideth  forever."  Not  an  hour 
of  a  life  lived  along  that  line  can  be 
lost,  because  it  is  a  mere  conductor 
to  the  eternal,  a  mere  physical  means 
of  communicating  the  spiritual  law 
to  this  natural  world.  George  Eliot 
says,  "  I  know  no  failure  save  failure 
in  cleaving  to  the  purposes  which  I 
know  to  be  the  best."  I  fancy  we 
all  know  pretty  well  that  this  is  the 

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best  purpose  to  which  we  can  put 
our  life, — to  do  the  will  of  God,  and 
our  lives  cannot  fail  so  long  as  we  do 
that.  That  principle  equalizes  all 
life,  it  makes  a  life  lived  in  the 
kitchen  and  a  life  lived  in  the  pulpit 
equally  heroic,  equally  Christian  and 
equally  divine,  because  a  servant 
girl  in  the  kitchen  can  do  the  will  of 
God  just  as  much  as  Mr.  Spurgeon 
from  his  platform.  When  life  is  all 
over,  nothing  greater  can  be  said  of 
any  man  than  that  he  did  the  will  of 
God,  whatever  that  was. 

I  close  by  giving  you  a  text  indi- 
rectly connected  with  this  :  "  Seek 
first  the  kingdom  of  God."  Seek  it 
first!  It  is  not  worth  while  being 
a  Christian  unless  a  man  makes  it 
his  meat  and  drink  to  do  the  will  of 
God,  and  help  on  Christ's  kingdom  ; 
and  I  dare  say  many  of  you  have 
found  out  a  further  secret,  not  only 

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that  it  is  not  worth  while,  but  that  it 
is  a  hundred  times  easier  to  seek  the 
kingdom  of  God  first  than  it  is  to 
seek  it  second.  A  man  is  very  apt 
to  think  that  if  he  gets  more  reli- 
gious and  more  earnest,  life  will  be- 
come more  complicated,  and  every- 
thing will  be  very  much  more  diffi- 
cult. That  is  not  true.  Life  becomes 
vastly  more  simple  and  vastly  more 
easy  the  more  that  a  man  determines 
that  he  will  seek  first  the  kingdom 
of  God.  Just  in  proportion  as  we 
link  our  wills  with  the  will  of  God, 
there  will  be  a  lasting  outcome  from 
our  lives.  Some  years  ago  the  At- 
lantic cable  was  broken,  and  the 
operator  on  the  coast  of  Ireland  used 
to  stay  at  night  and  watch  the  needle, 
as  it  waved  back  and  forth  trying  to 
utter  itself  in  inarticulate  words. 
For  months  and  months  this  inco- 
herent muttering  went    on  without 

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any  meaning,  but  one  night  as  he 
watched  the  needle,  he  thought  he 
noticed  a  change,  and  he  tried  to 
follow  what  it  was  saying.  He  saw 
it  spell  out  a  coherent  syllable, 
and  that  was  followed  by  a  second 
syllable  and  a  third,  and  a  fourth, 
until  he  read  whole  sentences.  In 
mid  ocean  the  cable  had  been  joined. 
You  know  an  incoherent,  inarticulate 
muttering  comes  from  a  man's  voice, 
or  lips,  or  life,  who  is  not  linked  with 
the  will  of  God.  The  moment  those 
two  wills  touch  and  are  joined  to- 
gether, and  keep  together,  life  begins 
to  spell  out  its  great  words,  and  the 
messages  from  the  other  side  become 
real  and  intelligent.  It  is  only  as 
we  can  keep  up  this  connection  and 
live  habitually  in  this  great  stream  of 
existence  in  the  will  of  God,  which  is 
the  winning  force  in  life,  that  our 
lives  can  count  for  Him. 

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